Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third of all the people who go to doctors suffer primarily from emotional disorders, says Dr. Ebaugh. Often a doctor can find nothing organically wrong with the patient, but is afraid that another physician may. So he hedges his report to the patient, leaving him confused and worried. Dr. Ebaugh calls this the "mug-wumping technique of trying to be right in any event...
...Doodler. One species of physician is often unaware of the effect that his anxiety may have upon the patient: "If you are anxiously beating out an SOS with your fingers on the desk, or doodling with agitation while verbally reassuring a hypertensive patient . . . the patient will understand what you are doing and reject what you are saying...
Clad in a gold-colored silk sari, Dr. Sushila Nayar, disciple and personal physician to the late Mohandas K. Gandhi, carried the Mahatma's gospel all the way to Dallas: "If every Texan would adopt a policy of nonviolence, there would be no new problems...
...most of the $6,000-a-year cost of his iron lung and nursing care. In 1939, when he became 21, and ineligible for crippled children's aid, Governor Herbert Lehman rushed through arrangements to provide other funds. From the first, he was faithfully attended by the same physician, Dr. Scott Lord Smith...
...Farris method, two immature female white rats are injected with the woman's urine each day. Then the rats are killed. The time when the woman's ovum will be released is predicted by observing the reddening of the rats' ovaries. With that knowledge, a physician can advise a couple when to have relations with the best chance of causing conception-sometimes fixing the time as precisely as a six-to-twelve-hour period, Dr. Farris claims. Some extreme examples: one man left a board meeting, at which he was being elected executive vice president...